It started with allegations of hangman’s nooses, graffiti and racist comments targeting a handful of black workers at a trucking company warehouse in Chicago Ridge, Ill. Four years later, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission had turned the case into a ...

By Todd Etshman and John Callegari Local lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups are heralding a new decision by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to extend employment discrimination protection to transgender individuals. The case, Macy v. Holder, involved a discrimination ...

Melville-based Olsten Staffing Services has agreed pay a deaf job applicant $75,000 to settle a disability discrimination suit in Wisconsin. According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Olsten violated the Americans With Disabilities Act by refusing to refer a deaf ...